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Black
Circle Boys 1997, 101 mins. review by Lee Peterson
Naturally, he falls in with the "wrong crowd", a gang of devil-worshipping kids led by the charismatic Shane (Eric Mabius from the upcoming The Crow 3:The Salvation). Before you can say "It's like The Craft, only with boys", Kyle is pulled deep into a dark underworld of drugs, Satanic blood rituals, grave-robbing and terrible, terrible goth rock. Ex-New Kids on the Block Donnie Wahlberg (brother of Mark) supplies a cameo as a bisexual crackhead (exactly how you figured the New Kids would turn out). Between this and his great turn in The Sixth Sense, Wahlberg threatens to make Alexis Arquette completely obsolete. A-Pix Entertainment has released Black Circle Boys on sell-through VHS priced at a very reasonable $14.99. The fullscreen transfer looks nice, with good colors and no noticeable cropping of the image. A fullscreen DVD is scheduled for March from Image Entertainment, with no extras mentioned. I know there are people who eat this direct-to-video Goth angst
stuff right up, but I am not one of them. It's never over-the-top
enough to be much OFFICIAL WEB
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Kyle
(Scott Bairstow, from FOX-TV's Harsh Realm series) is an
All-American high school student living a normal teenage life in
suburbia. After the accidental death of his best friend, his family
picks up and moves to a new town, where Kyle turns distant and vaguely
rebellious. He broods, he grows his hair longer, he smokes. Heck,
he even sasses his mom (Dee Wallace Stone from The Howling)!